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Originally Posted by Nick
I'm by no means an expert in Montreal travel patterns. This, for me, seems more like a Vancouver/Abbotsford situation where Abbotsford serves the Fraser Valley and Surrey for those who don't want to deal with a busy airport and bridges/tunnels. YHU seems like it serves the South Shore. There are lots of people in both regions that don't go into busier parts of the city and would be more than happy to go to a smaller airport closer to where they live.
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To me that seems more similar to Pearson and Hamilton Munro since in both cases, the airports are around 62km apart. Whereas St. Hubert to Trudeau are only about 26km apart while Abbotsford isn't even in Metro Vancouver. I'm guessing it can still work when the smaller airport offers plenty of destinations, but I wonder how efficient it is to duplicate flights that are already offered relatively nearby. If it only serves a much smaller number of destinations, it wouldn't really matter how convenient it is to get to since most people flying out of the metro area still have to go to the larger airport. Well, unless they consider it more convenient to have to take a connecting flight rather than fly direct I suppose. In that case, all it would really need is service to a few major hubs.
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